Flower holder



E. 'STONE FLOWER HOLDER Oct. 20, 1936.

Filed NOV. 5V, 1935 INVENTOR. fo WA 2o 3ro/ws:

BY @41772. A TTORNEY Patented Oct. 20, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Claims.

This invention relates to the class of flower holders and particularly to the provision of means integral within a receptacle for holding the flowers in a desired arrangement or a guard 5 against accidental displacement.

It is an object of this invention to provide an article of the class described which will be of relatively simple construction, inexpensive to manufacture and yet efcient for the purpose intended.

In general terms my invention consists of the permanent connecting of a ower supporting means in the bottom of a bowl or similar receptacle.

In the past it has been the practice to employ flower supporting means which are entirely separate and distinct from the receptacle in which they are placed, namely, by simply setting the same in the bottom of the bowl. This method has proved highly unsatisfactory and undesirable for the reason that inasmuch as it is necessary to rely on the perfectly balanced arrangement of the flowers to keep the same in upright position, the slightest disturbance of such balance is sufcient to` tip the flowers over and frequently cause the bowl as well to overturn.

Then, too, the old method required the use of an abundance of flowers in each receptacle to acquire balance as well as effective displays.

With my device it is possible to obtain attractive arrangements and balance is not an essential since the weight of the bowl will be sufficient to overcome any tendency of the whole to tip.

Referring now to the drawing forming a part of this application and in which two preferred forms of my invention are illustrated,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a flower holder embodying my invention, with a piece of the bowl broken away for purposes of clarity.

Figure 2 is fragmentary top plan view of the flower supporting means and a portion of the bowl,

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken along the line 3 3 of Figure 1, and

Figure 4 is a sectional View, Ysimilar to Figure 3, showing a different form of the invention.

The flower supporting means illustrated in the drawing forms the subject matter of United States Letters Patent No. 1,196,312, issued to William R. Stuck on August 29, 1916, to which reference may be had for details of construction. This article is commonly referred to in the trade as a frog. It is to be appreciated and understood that my invention is not limited to the use of this particular flower supporting means (Cl. lJIL-41) but may employ other articles of that general class. Furthermore, my invention resides in the novel manner of permanently connecting the flower supporting means to. the bowl or other receptacle to provide a flower holder of the stated 5 characteristics.

The frog here illustrated is designated by the numeral I0. It has upper and lower coarse wire mesh surfaces I I and I2, respectively, side meshes I3, and a base ring I4. 10

The bowl I5 is provided with a well I6 adapted to receive the frog I0. In manufacture the practice of the invention is to create the well I6 of only slightly larger diameter than the base ring I4 of frog lo, so that a snug nt is accompnshed, 15 and then render the connection permanent by tapping the bulge I'I, at the juncture of the wall I8 of the well I6 and the bottom proper I9 of the bowl I5 inwardly to compress said wall I8 and bind the ring I4. 2o

In the form illustrated in Figure 4 it will be noted that the bottom proper I9 of bowl I5 is curved downwardly to rest on the surface as does the bottom of well I6. This is a matter of design of the particular bowl and in Figure 4 there 25 is illustrated a bowl in which the bottom of well I6 alone acts as the base for the ower holder.

In use the bowl I5 is lled with water and the stems of the flowers are then thrust through meshed surfaces II, I2 and I3 to effect the de- 30 sired artistic arrangement.

In effecting a permanent connection between frog and bowl without the aid of solder, cement or third element, I have overcome a number of problems facing the industry and still produced 35 an article which may be rendered highly decorative. Moreover, this means of joining the two elements is less costly and more emcient than would be those joined by compositions subject to deterioration and/or breakage due to normal 40 wear and tear.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by grant of Letters Patent and therefore claim, is:

1. A flower holder comprising a bowl having 45 a well in the bottom thereof, and flower supporting means bound in said well.

2. A flower holder comprising a receptacle of pliable material having a well in the bottom thereof, flower supporting means set in said well, said flower supporting means being bound in said well by compressing the upper wall of said well.

3. In a flower holder a receptacle of pliable material having a well in the bottom thereof, flower supporting means comprising a perforate member bound in said well by the compressed 5. A ower holder comprising a receptacle of Walls of said well. material capable of being rendered pliable hav- 4. In a flower holder, a receptacle of material ing a well in the bottom thereof, ower supportcapable of being rendered pliable, a well in the ing means set in said Well, said flower supporting bottom thereof, flower supporting means commeans being bound in said well by compressing 6 prising a perforate member bound in said Well the upper wall of said well. by the compressed walls of said well. EDWARD STONE. 

